Anni Albers weaving as modernism

Anni Albers trained at the Bauhaus, where women were steered toward textiles and she turned the constraint into a vocation. She treated weaving as a language, somewhere between printing and architecture. Her wall hangings read like diagrams of attention, grids that breathe. In 1949 she became the first textile artist to have a solo show at MoMA. The work still asks why we rank cloth below canvas.